Don’t forget: Indian tech entrepreneur Rajat Khare is scrubbing the internet of any mention of his name or even anything critical about him, like how he runs a hack for hire business that works for the worst of them, eg Qatar spying on FIFA when they were bidding for the World Cup.
Behind the Bastards tried to do a two part episode on it, but it’s pretty hard to find now.
Fuck me, they weren’t joking on that one… I listened to those episodes when they first came out, but they were gone soon after it seems.
There are working download links on the subreddit though, if anyone else wants to find them.
I swear I had them downloaded, then my app deleted them. Either that or they just never downloaded.
Gonna have another hunt, I want me an mp3.
They’re seriously gone? I also listened to them when they came out. Looks like the Clear Channel/iHeartRadio overlords stepped in.
I listened to them on Google Podcasts… gone. You can see there’s a gap between the episode on February 1st (Part 2 of Tech bros built a cult) and February 13th, the first part of Robert E. Lee.
Also gone from the main site and other apps that I use. Unless you heard it when it was up, you’d never know it existed.
You can see the missing eps listed on Podscripts, feb. 6 & 8.
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/behind-the-bastards/
Scary, right? If a shitty tech dude can be this effective at scrubbing things, imagine what the REALLY scary people and governments hide from us…
I’m sorry but “there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop” sounds like a great band name
Never seen my exact inner monologue as a poem before. Besides the Ativan. I could use some Ativan.
This is the exact reason I stopped watching last week tonight. Every week John points out another obvious flaw in our system.
We have some broken shit guys and all we ever hear from the owners of this country is, “Don’t touch that! I have it just the way I like it.”
My response, “who the fuck asked you?”
Their response to my response:
Hill billies with pitchforks
And listen here you fucking hill billies. I dont give a shit if you’re angry about this or that I KNOW what you really want.
You want to be left alone to your hill and be able to pretend the world works exactly how some hill billie preacher tells you it does.
Fine, HAVE it. Just stay the fuck away from me and let me have my ‘hill’ without your stupidity encroaching on it. I’ll even fund your housing, meals, roads, school, healthcare, fire department, police force, and whatever else makes life decent.
Edit: for clarity
Does Last Week Tonight do this? I watch it regularly, but I’m not making the connection.
I think he’s more so saying that last week tonight feels frustrating because it points out clear issues that the average American should be frustrated about but then juxtaposes it with average Americans actively siding with the system or being complacent in it.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. I’m neurodivergent and sometimes things aren’t as straightforward to me :)
Yeah and I somewhat agree. Conservatives seem to “rile up their base” with outrage, scapegoating, and a very loose grasp of reality. On the more liberal, thinking side, Jon Stewart is great and introduces some levity but points out issues that should be so blindingly obvious that it’s stressful that we can’t seem to do anything about it
Fascists from the left? The left can’t get anyone more extreme than mayonnaise, what Democrat fascists are winning primaries?
Fascists from the left?
Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve heard someone say “National SOCIALISM!” But I think this is more referring to the Kristen Sinemas and Robert Menendezes who spend more time finding ways to strangle Cuba to death and sell F-35s to Turkish dictators than to curb carbon emissions or mitigate the damage inflicted by COVID.
If you know of a better way to describe what kind of ideologue sips $1000 btl wine in a cave full of corporate arms dealers while negotiating the finer points of our next proxy war in Latin America, I’d love to hear it.
Or, you know.
The people also enabling a genocide. Two, even!
Because everyone forgot to be mad about the Uyghurs somehow.
Because everyone forgot to be mad about the Uyghurs somehow.
If the Uyghurs had been on the other side of the China/Afghanistan border, we’d be gasoline bombing them while half the nation clapped.
On the off chance that China does a Capitalist Revolution and all those western business interests discover they’ve got an opportunity to strip mine Hongshan Mountain for precious metals, its going to be Iraq War Redux over there inside a hot minute.
Even now, folks from the NBA to Hollyweird have decided actually China is very cool and good, so long as they can keep selling jerseys and toys to middle-income kids and box seat tickets to traveling executives. All this shit is forever about the money. You can stack the corpses to the moon and it’ll still be about the money.
It doesn’t say “from the left”. It says “from both parties”. Biden is the fascist from the other party.
Democrats are in no way, shape, or form part of “the left”.
At bare minimum someone on the left would be completely opposed to capitalism. They might be a mutualist, communalist, anarcho-syndicalist, anarcho-communist, etc.
Democrats are Neo-liberals and support the status quo. Maybe not outright fascists like the Republicans, but they have more in common with Republicans than they do with anyone on the left and when push comes to shove they’re not going to oppose fascism, they’re just going to go along with it. “Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.”
Biden is the fascist from the other party.
Biden is in no way, shape, or form a fascist. Particularly in the context of a Trump ascendancy.
Yeah. I absolutely cannot square that circle either. This is a very, very thick supra-orbital brow take.
Adam Schiff vehemently opposes a permanent cease fire in Israel.
California also just passed a plan to involuntarily institutionalize it’s homeless people.
That’s just the news from today. There will be more hellscape tomorrow.
Edit: deleted my original arguments because I fell for the dishonest troll ….
I don’t know what you’re going on about, but this “today” news, best I can find online is two years ago
require counties to provide comprehensive treatment to the most severely impaired and untreated Californians and hold patients accountable to their treatment plan
Or this past October
working closely with the city and county of Sacramento to build a tiny home village on Stockton Boulevard that will be a model for the rest of the state. Residents will be embedded in a community wellness campus specializing in substance abuse disorder treatment and mental health care.
Neither of which bears any resemblance to the claim
Prop 1 that we just voted on is a plan to remove funding from outpatient treatment that’s highly rated by it’s patients. That money would be used to build and staff thousands of new beds for mentally ill homeless and veterans. The measure was largely sold as a way to clear the streets of homeless people.
Now how are they going to get homeless people who don’t want to leave to go into in patient treatment? Involuntary commitment.
Furthermore because it’s being sold as a way to get homeless people off the streets it creates an open end political mandate to keep expanding the program as long as someone complains about homeless people . Since someone is making money, supplying, building, and staffing these places; there’s also going to be business lobby pressure to increase funding and program use for the foreseeable future.
Tl;dr Prop 1 isn’t wanted by the patients, or the people who care for them. And it’s sold as an anti homeless measure. That’s really all you need to know to know it’s crooked.
